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Featured Leading Voice: Chip Bell

Lead Change Blog

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). Helping the CEO of Southwest Airlines launch a best-selling book. Getting a book endorsement from Seth Godin.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. Poor Managers Enervate, Effective Leaders Energize Management at an airline with deteriorating customer satisfaction issued a directive urging staff to smile and be nicer to passengers. .” “No one wants to work anymore,” they’ll say.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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How to Become Truly Social

Coaching Tip

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). Sticking with Southwest Airlines, why do their flight attendants entertain their passengers? 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 6) Give trust away. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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Why Your Customer Loyalty Program Isn’t Working

Harvard Business Review

Aggressive moves by airlines to migrate frequent flyer metrics from miles flown to dollars spent have caused bargain-hunting road warriors worldwide to whine about “disloyalty programs.” Airlines have clearly calculated that customers who spend more are more valuable to them than customers who fly more.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.